RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 8, 2018 at 12:08 am
(May 7, 2018 at 11:57 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(May 7, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Quick Wrote:Yet another commonality I've already commented on. Each of you that makes it here imagines yourself to be the only one.
I have never heard another person say what I said. Furthermore, I'd say the frame that believers are looking for a way to not believe isn't accurate. I'm not either.
ok?
(May 7, 2018 at 11:57 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(May 7, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Quick Wrote: If I am a hypocrite, I'd like to know why you think I am.Then it;s a good thing you have my comments on the matter.
In otherwords, you're not going to explain it.
(May 7, 2018 at 11:57 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(May 7, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Quick Wrote: You should probably drop the attitude or I am going to stop engaging with you.Oh heaven forfend you stop talking to me. We all decide who and what we respond to..and you have a handy ignore button at your disposal, as well.
You're saying that because I don't feel like defending my beliefs with empirical evidence that that means that I have no reason to believe them. That's why it's a belief and not a fact. finding purpose is an individual process and not something that needs defending.
I don;t recall saying anything of the sort, nor am I asking you to defend the fact that you;ve found purpose, and I;ve already commented on your "reasons".
I was commenting on how...as you yourself stated earlier..it doesn;t really matter to you whether or not your beliefs are accurate. If you don;t require accurate beliefs in order to derive an acceptable purpose, there's likely no specific belief you;d require to derive that purpose. You;re the one that keeps interjecting your divine purpose as an answer to questions it;s wholly irrelevant to. If you want people to stop commenting on it, stop saying it, lol.
We all believe things whether we know them to be true or not. I think my beliefs have merit because they give me happiness. You can shit on that if you want, but it makes you a bad person for doing so.
But your individuality and your present need will be swept away by change,
and what you now ardently desire will one day become the object of abhorrence.
~ Schiller - 'Psychological Types'